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tradrick:
I've got a problem with my arrows being consistant.I bought a dz.40/45 POC shafts from 3rivers and stained them and fletched them.I've only made up 6 of the dz.All are fletched the same with 3 4'' feathers,classic nocks and 125 gr point.3 out of the 6 will fly great and right to the mark when I do my part.The other 3 I get erratic flight out of or hitting way left or right.In other words nothing consitant.When I eye ball down the shaft they appear to be straight.Do you think they could be the wrong spine?Is shooting woodies this much headache?Or is this another trade I need to learn?I'm used to shooting aluminum arrows from laminated longbows and recurves so this is still fairly new to me.Thanks for any advice.tradrick

Hillbilly:
Try shooting the wierd ones with the cock feather turned in toward the bow. Also, make sure your points are on perfectly straight. Try spinning the arrows with the point on a piece of wood and if they wobble, heat the head up and realign it until it spins true. I usually like 5 1/2 inch feathers, too-with some helical, they'll smooth out some flight problems.

Pat B:
I agree with Steve. Flip them over first. That will usually solve the problem. For self bows especially I like 5 1/2" high back fletching but I use an offset straight fletch. Did you make the arrows up with the grain lines against the bow(horizontal)? That is the way you want them.       Pat

Pappy:
Sometime the problem with bought wood shafts is the spine isn't the same,I have a spine tester and grain scale so I can group them.If it is flying bad out of the bow you can add a heaver point if it is to stiff to weaken it some or if you have any length left you can cut them off a little to
make them stiffer.An inch will add about 5 lbs. of spine weight.I usually use 4 -4 1/2 feather
with a slight cant up the shaft.Like Pat said be sure to line the nocks up the same on the grain
you can see it looking at the end of most shafts.They are some trouble sometimes to get right but once you do several and figure out a little about how to tune them they are as good as any shaft you want to shoot. :)
   Pappy

armymedic.2:
i am in love with my wooden arrows and would not trade them.  you do get some that are a pain, but it should be fixable by doing what others have said, or by cutting them down in incriments until they fly well.  i am not sure, but i remember hearing they are spined for a 28 inch arrow.  that mean that if you have a 40# spines arrow that you leave 30 inches lone it will shoot like a 50# spined arrow.  using plastic nocks i never had to worry about the grain of the arrow relative to the bow.  I never saw a difference.  head allignment and nock allingnemt are paramount however.  if your nock is not glued straight you are wasting your time looking for good flight.  same could be said for points.  The biggest thing with woodies is you need to enjoy them for what they are.  while they can be perfect and just as good as any carbon, many have small flaws that take time to master and understand, but that is what is so great about them.  we don't build our own bows and arrows for ease of use, or fast mastering.  i beleive we do it all for many reasons, but none of them include trying to match the factory standards of prefabbed machined arrows and bows.  If we wanted the best precision you can spend $10 at walmart, or 2 hours of your time on each arrow like many of us do.  "Good arrow damn heap of work, ugghh"-Maurice Thompson's savage friend-.  Enjoy the woodies for what they are, and love the imperfections in them, or they won't become part of your quiver.  besides, when an alluminum breaks all you think is, "damn, there goes ten bucks".  when a woody breaks you are either truely sad because of the work you put into it, or just happy to smell the fresh cedar.  woodies envoke emotion where manufactured arrows simply so not.  that is why i really love them.  eor

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